Associations – You know from the key phrase (contains past, future and perfect) that you can link any of the tense terms with versions of “aura” plus the past participle. The past future must have a past participle because it is a compound tense. The key phrase contains “will have” to ensure that you will remember the English translation. Since it is a future tense, “they” has a unique ending. Instead of the usual -ient, or -aient, future tenses always have -ont, in this case the auxiliary verb (avoir) is conjugated as “auront”. This mnemonic won’t help you recall that novelty, so a mnemonic that links future tenses to “ont” for they, may be something you may wish to create. Of course, now that I’ve mentioned it a few times, you might already have it down.

Landing Area – The “aura” part lands you into the conjugations at either “tu auras” or “il/elle/on aura”. After you land, you fill in the rest with a normal pattern.

You can make an error thinking there is the letter “i” in these conjugations, because there is a tense that is very similar to past future, which does have “i”s, but the key phrase made no mention of that letter, so don’t trick yourself into a guess that is wrong. Remember the key phrase has all that you need to either choose correctly or logically progress through during a fill-in the blank conjugation, nothing more, nothing less.

What if the verb uses être (to be)? The second part of the key phrase gives you that landing area, “tu seras” or “il sera”, and then normal conjugation follows: